Directed by:
William DieterleScreenplay:
Philip YordanCinematography:
J. Roy HuntComposer:
Leith StevensCast:
Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, George Bancroft, Robert Benchley, Walter Catlett, Ted North, Frank Jenks, Mona Barrie, Benny Goodman (more)Plots(1)
A jazz trumpeter tries to woo a fellow musician in mourning for her dead lover, and sets up a band in an attempt to bring them closer together. Covering a quarter-century of American "syncopated" music (ragtime, jazz, swing, blues, and boogie boogie), Syncopation features music from the turn of the 20th century through prohibition, the Great Depression, and the outbreak of WWII. Featuring jazz greats Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Harry James, and more. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Adolphe Menjou
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
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Jackie Cooper
USA
Best movies:
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Bonita Granville
USA
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George Bancroft
USA
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Robert Benchley
USA
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The Major and the Minor (1942)
China Seas (1935)
Walter Catlett
USA
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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Ted North
USA
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The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Roxie Hart (1942)
Frank Jenks
USA
Best movies:
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Woman on the Run (1950)
Mona Barrie
UK
Best movies:
Syncopation (1942)
Strange Fascination (1952)
Benny Goodman
USA
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Birth of the Blues (1941)
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Harry James
USA
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The Opposite Sex (1956)
Syncopation (1942)
Frank Darien
USA
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You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
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Frank McGlynn Sr.
USA
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The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
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Emory Parnell
USA
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
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Charles Sullivan
USA
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The Great Dictator (1940)
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Earle Hodgins
USA
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Walter Baldwin
USA
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Frank Mills
USA
Best movies:
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Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
Max Wagner
Mexico
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
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Eddie Dew
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)